Readers of Nathan's Book House's "Mystery and Suspense" are already familiar with the Nightless Wait.

This familiarity is based on the three short stories that have preceded it, although this is a rookie writer who has only debuted for two months.

But being familiar doesn't mean you like it.

For example, Dani, the front desk attendant of a certain sofa brand, is very uninterested in this nightless wait.

Dani's first work is called "The Chair in the World".

She still can't forget the feeling after watching "The Human Chair" that day-

Then.

She sits on the company's flagship sofa.

It was a single sofa, heavy and large, with delicate leather wrapped in soft sponge.

Resilient.

It feels very comfortable.

Sitting on such a sofa, Dani felt very enjoyable.

However, before she finished reading the book, she jumped up suddenly, and then looked back at the wide sofa that could be completely hidden in it, and felt as if there were ants crawling all over her body!

And that's not even the scariest of all.

The most terrifying thing is that there are hundreds of similar sofas in the store where Dani is located!

At that moment, Dani couldn't wait to flee on the spot!

She felt that the hundreds of sofas in the store exuded an eerie atmosphere!

As the front desk of a sofa brand, this is Dani's job, and she occasionally acts as a salesperson to recommend a certain sofa to customers......

In a word.

In those days, Dani's work was very poor, and she hated it for a long time, and it took several days to adjust.

Yes.

Last month, "Reasoning and Suspense" once again put the work of Nightless Hou in the first article, and Dani directly chose to ignore it.

Look back to front!

The result can be imagined, the last work of the last issue of the magazine was also written overnight!

Avoided the beginning!

The end that can't be escaped!

Today, Dani ordered "Mystery and Suspense" again.

When I opened the first article, Dani couldn't cry or laugh, and sure enough, it was still a work that didn't wait for the night, can this magazine be good?

Why every issue has no night!

Is Nightless the Daddy of your magazine?

Dani complained in her heart, and subconsciously wanted to skip the short story that never sleeps, but the title of the other party's work this time suddenly made her feel that it was not unacceptable?

"Poetry of the Sun?"

As far as the title goes, there's not the slightest sense of horror and eerieness.

On the contrary, the title even carries a harmonious warm tone, which is both sunny and poetic.

Check it out.

If it doesn't feel right, skip it right away.

It's mainly the title of the short story this time.,It's not quite the same as the painting style of the previous stories.,It really makes her a little curious.,Maybe this is the complexity of human nature.,Obviously not interested in this author.。

My mind moved.

The story officially begins.

[I opened my eyes and found myself sleeping on an operating table.] Sitting up, I saw that it was a large room littered with things. There was a man sitting in a chair. He was thinking quietly not far from me. A smile appeared on my face when I woke up. 】

Classic first person.

All the stories of the Nightless are first-person unfolding.

But there's nothing scary about the beginning of this short story:

A man builds a robot.

This robot is "me".

I was taken by the man to a wooded area with a house and a cemetery in the distance.

The "I" in the story is curious:

Why do we live in the woods, where are the other humans?

The man said:

Humans were almost all killed by a bacterial infection that suddenly covered the air.

He and his uncle moved here before becoming infected.

It's a pity that his uncle is still infected with the bacteria and has been dead for a long time.

The cemetery in the distance of the house belonged to his uncle.

Gee.

Dani shook her head as she watched.

It's you, it's not night.

At the beginning, he borrowed this man's mouth to understate that humanity was almost extinct.

This silent text is always as cold and ruthless as ever, and he has a frowning rationality in describing life and death.

It's as simple as life and death.

Fortunately, there are no thriller elements in this story at the moment.

Dani continued to look at it, and then her head shook even more.

Because the man said lightly:

"I did a test yesterday, and I was also infected with bacteria, and when I die, you can dig a hole next to my uncle's grave and bury me. That's why I made it. ”

Okay.

The man who may represent the last life in this world is also dying.

And "I" is just a robot.

This story still does not feel terrifying, but the description of life and death makes Dani feel more and more ruthless and cold that never sleeps.

In the days that followed.

I began to take care of this man for his end-of-life life.

As a robot, I have no emotions and cannot understand the meaning of life and death.

The man realized this and said:

"In order for you to bury me properly, I want you to understand what 'death' is all about."

See this.

Dani was suddenly happy.

What is it like to die?

Can this kind of absolutely rational writing write the weight of life?

She was suddenly a little curious:

What will the next thing be written about "death".

The text is as rational as ever, but with a few more details of life.

We live in the forest, and there is a vegetable garden in front of the door, and there are often rabbits stealing vegetables.

I didn't have much to do, so I just wanted to catch the rabbit.

But I was only given the same functions as an adult woman, and it was impossible to catch the rabbit.

As if laughing at me, the rabbit disappeared into the forest in an instant.

The man seemed to be happy and laughed all the time.

He laughed and said, "In life, you will slowly become more human." ”

When I returned home, the man was still laughing, although I didn't understand it too much, but I was a little itchy in the bottom of my heart, and my body temperature began to rise, and I didn't know what to do for a while, so I could only scratch my head.

I see.

It seems that this is a kind of relationship called "shyness".

I suddenly hated him for smiling all the time.

During lunch, he slammed the table twice to get my attention.

I looked up at him as I was drinking soup.

He picks up the vegetables with a fork, which has many rabbit bite marks.

"Why are my salads and soups full of vegetables that have been bitten by rabbits, why don't you eat them like this?"

"It's a coincidence. The question of probability. ”

I replied as I ate a vegetable salad that hadn't been bitten by a rabbit.

Dani sneered.

I didn't expect that Nightless Hou would write such a witty plot.

Although she is not interested in not being cold, Dani has to admit that the details of this life are well described, and there is a feeling of warmth in people's hearts.

Robots begin to be "shy".

The robot learned to "play pranks".

As the man said, "I" will slowly become more like a human being in life.

"It doesn't seem to be the same style as before Nightless."

Dani muttered to herself.

The story continues.

The man said that he was going to die in a week, as if it was because of the correct examination to know the date of death, but I still couldn't understand the meaning of death.

As a robot, my death is predetermined.

I put my wrist to my ear and can clearly hear the sound of the motor, ticking for a second, and I will die when the motor stops working......

When a man has five days left in his life.

The rabbit came to steal the leaves from the vegetable garden again, and I still wanted to catch the little one, so I rushed out without hesitation.

It was raining in the sky.

I ran after the rabbit to the edge of the cliff.

The little animal with only white fur had nowhere to escape, and quietly let me hold it, and I felt a little warmth in my hand, as if it was getting hotter and hotter.

Suddenly.

The cliffs began to collapse.

I fell hard, holding the rabbit tightly in my arms.

The moment I hit the ground, a strong impact pierced my body, half of my body was damaged, one of my feet was broken, and there was a huge tear from my abdomen to my chest, but it was not fatal to the robot.

I looked at the rabbit on my chest.

There was something red on the white fur, and I knew it was blood.

The rabbit's body slowly grew colder, and the body temperature seemed to run through my wrists.

I returned home with the rabbit in my arms, limping on one foot, and from time to time things fell out of my body.

The rain kept falling.

I returned home with difficulty and asked the man, can I save this rabbit?

The man shook his head and said that the rabbit couldn't stand the impact of the fall and fell to my death in the arm.

I thought of the lively rabbit chasing after each other among the vegetables, and then looked at the rabbit in front of me whose white fur was dyed red and whose eyes were narrowed into a line, and which did not move.

"Ah...... Ah......h

I opened my mouth to say something, but not a word.

I felt a pain coming from deep in my chest, and I guess I didn't have anything to do with it.

But why does it hurt me?

Losing my strength, I fell to my knees.

I was given the function of tears.

He looked at me with a look of extreme sorrow and said:

"That's death."

I grabbed my head with both hands, and I knew that death was the pain of losing something.

……

Dani felt her heart twitch hard.

She was thinking before, can a writer like Buyehou, who writes about dead people at every turn, really write about the meaning of life and death?

Now she knows.

It's not that I don't understand—

To die is to suffer when something is lost.

The story depicts death from the perspective of a robot, which should be rational and cold, but when she saw this, her eyes suddenly turned red.

The story doesn't end there.

For the first time, I got angry with the man while he was repairing my damaged body:

"I hate you!"

Why did you make me?

If I hadn't been born into this world, if I didn't like anything, I wouldn't have been so afraid of death and parting.

I couldn't stop crying.

I like this man.

But this man made me out just to bury his body.

If it's so painful, it's better not to have a heart, I hate the heart he gave me.

He grimaced.

His life is also passing away bit by bit.

I guess he's going to be as still as a rabbit right now.

"A few hours left?"

In the final countdown to his life, I looked outside and asked him.

He was silent for a moment, then told me how many seconds he had left in his life.

I have a question.

If you die of germs, can you keep the time so accurately?

"I was also able to know exactly when I died, because robots like me were set to stop at the beginning, and then you were ...... too"

Why would you pretend to be human?

I pressed my ear to his chest and heard the subtle sound of the motor in his body.

The magazine flipped here.

Dani's hand suddenly stopped.

She suddenly felt a great sadness, and at the same time her eyes widened in shock, this is a shocking reversal design!

It turns out that this man is also a robot!

Nightless Hou is good at writing a huge reversal at the end of the story, but this reversal brings a shock to the heart.

The idea of the story is sublimated!

The "I" in the previous article understands death as the pain of losing something.

And the article here does not say it explicitly, but it is actually talking about life is growth and inheritance!

That's the meaning of life!

Dani didn't want to admit it, but she was really moved.

She thought of the day her grandfather left, and smiled and clenched her hand.

It turns out that at the moment of death, there is a person who can hold his hand, which is such a gratifying thing.

She couldn't let go of her grandfather in her heart, but now Dani realized that the kind old man's smile before leaving was actually an open-mindedness to life and a calmness to death.

The uncle in the story has been dead for two hundred years.

The man has been thinking about the uncle who made him all these years.

The man who was given life and humanity finally collapsed in two hundred years of loneliness, so he created me, and he also gave me humanity and life, and life always longs for the company of another life.

I forgave him.

Because I knew how he felt when he made me, maybe I would do the same thing in the future, and I hugged him tightly at this moment.

"Thank you for making me."

Love and loss make people's hearts cry with sorrow, if that's the case, why don't you just make me a puppet who doesn't love anything and has no heart.

I used to think so.

But I'm thankful for this man now.

[If I hadn't been born in this world, I wouldn't have seen the vast grasslands on the hills. If I don't give my heart, I can't look at the nest happily. I won't be frowning because of the bitterness of coffee. Touching every shining point of the world. What a valuable thing. 】

Life.

Death.

The two protagonists of this story are two robots.

But Dani can no longer simply see these two characters as robots.

Just like in the human world, children also have this feeling for their parents, and this is how the inheritance of mankind is.

From generation to generation, we learn to love and die.

Survive the cycle of light and darkness until the children grow up and continue what their parents did.

Dani suddenly understood that he didn't sleep, perhaps because he knew enough about life and death, so his words were always cold, but this was not a kind of respect.

Or rather, awe.

"Maybe under the dark exterior of Nightless, there is also a warm heart, I shouldn't have prejudices based on the first few stories alone, just like this "Poem of the Sun", he is a writer worthy of recognition......"

Think so.

Dani turned to the end of the chapter.

As expected, the epilogue is also a work that never sleeps.

With great anticipation, she continued to read the stories written by Nightless.

The story at the end of the story is called "The Couple Who Stayed Away".

See half.

Dani closed the magazine expressionlessly, and added to herself:

"When I didn't say it."

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ps: 6,000 words a day, and then add more for the alliance leader, thank you again for the little dinosaurs who love to eat fish.

(End of chapter)